Improvement in cornucopias



"UrrE-D ATE T oMAs L. ooennnn, OF BIRMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,390, datedFebru'arylfi, 1876; application filed December 29, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS L. CORNELL, ofBirmingham, county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Gornucopias; and I do hereby declare thatthe-following, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany andform part of this specification, is a description of my inventionsufficient to enable those skilled inthe art to practice it.

My invention relates to a novel construction of cornucopia or pointedpaper box; and

it consists in cutting a peculiar form of blank,

from'which the same ismade; in scoring, embossing, or otherwise defininglines thereon, which triangulate it to indicate the lines for bendingthe blank to shape; and in providing top flaps to cover and close themouth of such multilateral cornucopia.

In the drawings, Figure 1 illustrates a blank adapted for making acornucopia in the form of a pyramid of four equal sides, and with fourtop flaps for covering the same, one of which has a slit,'and another atongue to fold therein. Fig. 2 represents the same with its foldinglines indicated, scored,or embossed 'thereon; Fig. 3, the same as Fig.2, but with ornamental and attractive designs printed directly thereon;and Fig. 4, the cornucopia made therefrom Fig. 5 shows one of mycomplete cornucopias, having only. three sides; Fig.5, a top View of thesame; Fig. 7, one having six sides; and Fig. 8, one adapted to besuspended by its tongue.

The leading characteristics of my cornucopias are, that they areflat-sided, although tapering to a point; that they designedly aresomade that they can be folded flat in predetermined lines,scores, orcreases, for com- [pactness of packing and transportation, and withoutdetriment; that they may vary as to and the gash or slit (1, to receivea tongue, 0, for locking and closing the mouth of the completedcornucopia. This one act produces the blank complete, including aside'edge, f, for gluing the sidestogether,

I next, by a single act, emboss, score, or mark all the lines at whichthe paper is to be bent. to form angles, as at g h t'j, which convergeat the point It, and at I ma 0, which indicate the folds for the topflaps; .and at the same'time (when'wanted, and if not previously done incutting out the blank) out the holes or slits p q, to receive the ribbonor string, such as is usually attached to cornucopias.

I next gum or glue the edge f, and bend it over, as shown in Fig. 3, andthe two sides are then ready to be connected together. The ribbon maythen be inserted in the holes 19 q, the flaps bent down and interlocked,and the cornucopia is complete and self-closed.

Instead of the holes 1) q, and a ribbon therein, a hole, 8;, may be outin the tongue, by means of which the cornucopia maybe hung or suspended.In such case the flap b may be made long enough to tuck in, as seen inFig. 8. a When made with but three sides I fold one of the sidesinwardly at its center-,in order to flatten the whole, and make the topflaps triangular to accord with the shape.

To make one with six or eight or more sides, 1

I prefer, for the sake of convenience, and of economy in cutting thepaper, to make It of two pieces, instead of one, glued or cementedtogether at the edges, as, for instance, an octagonal or eight-sided onemay be made by uniting together two pieces such as shown 1n Fig. 2. Insuch spacious ones, or in the smaller ones, (those of lesssize,) it isoften preferable to dispense with the top flaps, and instead of them athin paper or cloth may be gummed or otherwise secured to the top, andwhich may then form a flexible cover to be gathered over the contents ofthe cornucopia.

broader than others.- a

It will thus be seen that my novel manner 'A,1:.1\rr ame.

When; desired, some of the sides may be .folded 1. A b ian k for apyramidal-shaped eornu- 3. As an airtiel eof manufacture, apyraniidaleopia, having top flaps integral therewith, subor nnlltifacedcornucopia, substantially as sta-ntially as shown and described. shownand described.

2. A blank for a pyramidal-shaped cornucopia, prepared with linesscored, embossed, THOMAS L. CORNELL.

or otherwise defined thereon, to indicate the Witnesses:

proper lines for bending, said lines terminat- A. W. PHILLIPS, ing' orconverging to a point. THOS. S. BIRDSEYE.

